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· 4w ago

A Dogcow Appears in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate’s Liquid Glass Settings https://512pixels.net/2026/09/liquid-glass-dogcow/

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A Dogcow Appears in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate’s Liquid Glass Settings

Moof!

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· 5mo ago

The Problem With AI: ‘Software Brain’

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/patel-decoder-ai-software-brain/

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The Problem With AI: ‘Software Brain’

In a world of companies burning money and resources at a breathtaking rate, Nilay Patel’s essay on the state of AI offers a refreshing level of clarity. The next time someone asks me what I think about AI, I will send this video with a note that I agree with all of it. AI is the most complex thing to happen to the technology industry, and Patel nails many of the reasons why.

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· 6mo ago

Bruce the Yak was Final Cut Pro’s Clarus the Dogcow

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/bruce-the-yak-final-cut/

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Bruce the Yak was Final Cut Pro’s Dogcow

I like to think I’m pretty knowledgeable when it comes to the weirdest corners of Apple history, but Cody Bromley’s recent blog post on a Final Cut Pro taught me I still have plenty to learn: On the Macintosh episode of Version History, David Pierce and Nilay Patel had a lot of fun riffing about Mr. Macintosh, Steve Jobs’s obscure concept for a digital cryptid who lives in your computer. About 15 years later, Apple actually shipped something very similar, except instead of a mysterious little ma

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· 5mo ago

Cook Out

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/cook-out/

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Cook Out

Tim Cook, writing on apple.com: For the past 15 years I’ve started just about every morning the same way. I open my email and I read notes I received the day before from Apple’s users all over the world. You share little pieces of your lives with me and tell me things you want me to know about how Apple has touched you. About the moment your mom was saved by her Apple Watch. About the perfect selfie you captured at the summit of a mountain that seemed impossible to climb. You thank me for the wa

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· 6mo ago

The Artemis II Crew is Home

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/the-artemis-ii-crew-is-home/

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The Artemis II Crew is Home

Stephen Clark at Ars: Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning home with four astronauts and safely capping humanity’s first voyage to the Moon in nearly 54 years. Temperatures outside the capsule built up to some 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit as a sheath of plasma enveloped the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, and its four long-distance travelers, temporarily blocking radio signals the

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· 4mo ago

Clarus Can Walk

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· 6mo ago

A Good Mac Studio is Hard to Find

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/a-good-mac-studio-is-hard-to-find/

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· 4mo ago

‘Grok is the RC Cola’ of the AI World

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/grok-is-the-rc-cola-of-the-ai-world/

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‘Grok is the RC Cola’ of the AI World

Joe Wilkins, writing at Futurism: In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the “Great Houses of AI.” These are Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta — giant tech monopolies which happen to also be four of the six top US corporations by market value. Then there are the lesser houses, the lower fiefdoms squabbling over the crumbs that fall from the big kids’ table. This is where we find Elon Musk’s xAI. Though the world’s richest man has pumped billions of dollars in

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· 6mo ago

Artemis II’s View of Earth

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/artemis-iis-view-of-earth/

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· 6mo ago

Artemis II Crew on Way to Moon

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/artemis-ii-crew-on-way-to-moon/

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· 6mo ago

xAI’s Memphis Water Treatment Plant ‘on an Indefinite Pause’

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/xais-memphis-water-treatment-plant-on-an-indefinite-pause/

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xAI’s Memphis Water Treatment Plant ‘on an Indefinite Pause’

Part of xAI’s deal with the city of Memphis included an $80 million greywater facility designed to reduce the amount of water the company needs for cooling its data centers. The Mid-South sits atop the Memphis Sand Aquifer that provides us with some of the very best water in the country. It is our best natural resource by far, and one that many people have worked hard to protect. Ground was broken on the plant in October, but as of today, work has stopped. Samuel Hardiman at The Daily Memphian b

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· 6mo ago

Artemis II Photos

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/artemis-ii-photos/

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· 6mo ago

The Late Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell Recorded Message for Artemis II Crew

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/lovell-artemis/

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· 6mo ago

I Have Done a Vibe Code

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/i-have-done-a-vibe-code/

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· 6mo ago

Lil Finder is a Star

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/lil-finder-is-a-star/

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· 5mo ago

A Presidential Proclamation for Tim Cook

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/a-presidential-proclamation-for-tim-cook/

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· 4mo ago

Surprise! xAI is Running a Bunch of Unpermitted Turbines in North Mississippi

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/xai-unpermitted-turbines-north-ms/

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· 5mo ago

The Wonderful World of Artemis II Photos

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/the-wonderful-world-of-artemis-ii-photos/

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· 5mo ago

Pedometer++ 8.0

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/pedometer-v8-new-watch-app/

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· 6mo ago

FireWire via a Raspberry Pi

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/firewire-pi/

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· 5mo ago

The Future of the Artemis Program

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/the-future-of-the-artemis-program/

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· 6mo ago

Artemis II Crew Share Easter Messages

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/artemis-ii-crew-share-easter-messages/

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· 6mo ago

Apple at 50: The Importance of the MacBook Air

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/apple-at-50-the-importance-of-the-macbook-air/

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· 6mo ago

How Apple Could Have Saved the Mac Pro

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/how-apple-could-have-saved-the-mac-pro/

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· 5mo ago

Connected #601: I Love Wrists — A Tier List of Tim Cook Quotes

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/connected-601/

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· 5mo ago

‘Debating New iPhone Colors for a Living’

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/debating-new-iphone-colors-for-a-living/

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· 5mo ago

Connected 600: Tommy Siri

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/connected-600/

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· 5mo ago

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/the-framework-laptop-13-pro/

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· 5mo ago

iPhones in Spaaaaaaaace

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/iphones-in-spaaaaaaaace/

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· 6mo ago

‘Ultra’

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/iphone-ultra-name/

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· 6mo ago

Musk Pushing Grok Subscriptions on Banks and Firms Working on SpaceX IPO

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/musk-grok-ipo-deal/

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· 6mo ago

Connected 591: S-Tier: Jason Snell

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/connected-591-s-tier-jason-snell/

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· 6mo ago

Apple at 50: Ronald Wayne’s Other 90 Years

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/apple-at-50-ronald-waynes-other-90-years/

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· 6mo ago

Artemis II Launch Being Captured in Apple’s Immersive Video Format

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/whats-a-worse-deal-the-sls-or-the-vision-pro/

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· 6mo ago

Apple at 50: How Apple Became Apple

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/how-apple-became-apple/

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· 4mo ago

Connected 603: Ungraded for Style

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/connected-603-ungraded-for-style/

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· 4mo ago

Building Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/building-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/

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· 5mo ago

Connected 602: Computer Too Good

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/connected-602/

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· 5mo ago

Anthropic Taking Over All of xAI’s First Memphis Data Center

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/claude-and-grok-roommates/

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Anthropic Taking Over All Capacity of xAl’s First Memphis Data Center

Some afternoon news from an unsigned xAI press release: SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers. Built from the ground up in record time, Colossus delivers unprecedented scale for AI training, fine-tuning, inference, and high-performance computing workloads. Colossus 1 features over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including dense deployments of H100, H200, and next-generation GB200 accelerators. The c

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· 5mo ago

AI Psychosis Reaches the Executive Suite

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/ai-psychosis-reaches-the-executive-suite/

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· 5mo ago

Control Center is Homeless

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/homekit-control-center-missing/

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Control Center is Homeless

Last night before going to bed, I told my iPhone to install iOS 26.4.2 and when I picked it up this morning, I was greeted by a Control Center bug that has been around since iOS 26 first launched: For months, HomeKit controls will be missing after an iOS update or device restart. In this case, I am missing controls for my garage door, my thermostats, and a couple of scenes.

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· 5mo ago

Replying to

@phirst I've never been a Nikon user but I can totally see that.

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· 6mo ago

Connected 598: 8TB of Space in a Trash Can

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/connected-598/

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· 6mo ago

Fifty

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/apple-50-years/

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Fifty

Anniversaries and birthdays serve as an opportunity to both reflect on where you’ve been and think about where you are going… whether you’re turning 16, planning your 20-year high school reunion, or celebrating 35 years of marriage. In the tech world, a milestone anniversary is a chance to revisit a product’s launch or a particularly meaningful update, inviting us to remember how far things have come. Just like in relationships, as the numbers get bigger, those reflections can get harder to make

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· 6mo ago

Apple at 50: Apple II Forever

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/apple-at-50-apple-ii-forever/

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· 5mo ago

Google Fitbit Air

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/google-fitbit-air/

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· 5mo ago

CHATBOT Act Introduced in Senate

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/chatbot-act-introduced-in-senate/

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· 4mo ago

Indigo

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/indigo/

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· 5mo ago

Sam Altman Apologizes to British Columbia Community, Wonders Who Could Have Stopped Such Violence

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/sam-altman-apologizes-to-british-columbia-community-wonders-who-could-have-stopped-such-violence/

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Sam Altman Apologizes to British Columbia Community, Wonders Who Could Have Stopped Such Violence

OpenAI, in a nameless blog post: Mass shootings, threats against public officials, bombing attempts, and attacks on communities and individuals are an unacceptable and grave reality in today’s world. These incidents are a reminder of how real the threat of violence is—and how quickly violent intent can move from words to action. People may also bring these moments and feelings into ChatGPT. They may ask questions about the news, try to understand what happened, express fear or anger, or talk abo

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· 6mo ago

xAI Says Memphis Water Plant Still Happening

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/xai-says-memphis-water-plant-still-happening/

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